Belgrove House

Belgrove House is an innovative laboratory and office building and the Discovery Centre and UK HQ of global life sciences company MSD. Subject to planning permission, the proposed building would be a world leader in sustainability and act as a new world-class landmark on this prominent gateway site. The building continues the tradition of innovative engineering expressed in the Grade 1 listed heritage buildings of King’s Cross & St. Pancras stations. At the northern half of the site the building responds to the civic scale of the Euston Road and the two stations. Here it rises to 10 storeys; on the southern part of the site the building steps down to 4 storeys with a setback 5th storey and terrace facing the Georgian terraces of Argyle Square. The building is structured around a series of brick-clad risers which allow efficient distribution of large volumes of air to the lab floors, ensuring energy use is minimised. The ‘double square’ structure based on an optimised 10 metre grid allows for a highly efficient structural design and is part of a series of features allowing embodied carbon to be reduced. The public realm surrounding all sides of the building will be transformed, including the removal of two obtrusive London Underground entry boxes on Euston Road with integration of a new Underground entrance in Belgrove House. The building includes a publicly-accessible ground floor level designed to encourage interaction with the local community and organisations within the Knowledge Quarter. The lab floors feature extra tall space and robust structure to allow flexibility for occupants and future proof labs for world-leading research.